The Audit

Cries For Help From Wall Street

Tie our hands before we strike again

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 21, 2011 at 08:31 AM

Financial Times columnist John Gapper had a good piece in New York a couple of weeks back about the psychology... More

Audit Notes: Financial Fraud and the Economy, TBTF Debts, Health Care

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 21, 2011 at 12:03 AM

Mike Konczal has some good thoughts on the Levin-Coburn Report, financial fraud, and ProPublica's Pulitzer win for their Wall Street... More

Barron’s On a Deadly Russian Tax Heist

Bureaucrats and thugs laundered hundreds of millions through Credit Suisse

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 20, 2011 at 06:49 PM

Bill Alpert has a must-read story in Barron's this week—a wild tale of overt Russian corruption involving a $230 million... More

Chris Christie’s Corporate Welfare

A $102 million tax break for a Japanese company to stay in New Jersey

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 20, 2011 at 01:46 PM

Chris Christie is a hero to the right and something of a media darling for his willingness to slash government... More

Audit Notes: Sorkin Hits Goldman, Agape at Capes, Preemption Doctrine

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 19, 2011 at 08:36 PM

Andrew Ross Sorkin gets just about as close to saying "Goldman Sachs lied to Congress" as you're going to see.... More

The Miami Herald Gets Creative on the Bum Economy

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 19, 2011 at 07:09 PM

It's sometimes hard to find new angles on a story like the bum economy, which has been an ongoing story... More

That Giant Sucking Sound

WSJ: Big companies shed millions of jobs in 2000s while adding millions abroad

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 19, 2011 at 03:03 PM

The Wall Street Journal has your chart of the day. It shows that U.S.-based multinational corporations added 2.4 million workers... More

The Pulitzers and The Wall Street Journal

Where to find the big one

By Dean Starkman   Apr 19, 2011 at 11:40 AM

Reading The Wall Street Journal’s “What They Know” series on Internet (un)privacy last year, I thought, this has “Pulitzer” written... More

ProPublica and How to Support Investigative Journalism

By Felix Salmon   Apr 19, 2011 at 10:45 AM

Paul Steiger is rightly proud of his latest Pulitzer -- the second for ProPublica in as many years. He's right,... More

WSJ Column Raises Ethics Issues

By Felix Salmon   Apr 19, 2011 at 10:40 AM

Last week, Ira Stoll took issue with Dennis Berman's column on SharesPost and SecondMarket, on the grounds that Berman lied... More

Audit Notes: Pulitzer Edition

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 18, 2011 at 08:30 PM

The financial crisis is now more than three years old, but up to now there had been no Pulitzer Prize... More

Newspaper Turnaround Stories

Give credit to the creditors and the courts before the CEOs

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 18, 2011 at 04:24 PM

David Carr takes a look today at the fortunes of the Minneapolis Star Tribune, which have stopped plummeting at least... More

Audit Notes: AP Spill, Reporting on Your Parent, Bloomberg Babies

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 15, 2011 at 04:21 PM

This Associated Press story had me scratching my head. It says Citgo spilled 265,000 barrels of oil in the Delaware... More

Skimpy Coverage of Levin-Coburn Report From WSJ, NYT

McClatchy, The Huffington Post, and Bloomberg are much better

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 15, 2011 at 01:33 PM

If you're looking for second-day coverage of the Levin-Coburn report in The Wall Street Journal or New York Times—as I... More

How Wall Street Elites Read the Business Press

What a story says depends on who exactly is reading it

By Felix Salmon   Apr 15, 2011 at 12:02 PM

The Picard complaint against JPMorgan, accusing the bank of being “at the very center “of the Madoff fraud, “and thoroughly... More